Re: Killing Two Stones with One Bird (was: "Acrobat and Distiller Printer" and "Print to PDF does not look format correctly"

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jan,

I believe you are correct on this. I wasn't really thinking much
about the MacOS, but there is a related problem on that platform.
Apple's decision years ago to bundle TrueType versions of Helvetica,
Times, Courier, Palatino, and ITC Zapf Dingbats that don't quite
have the same metrics as the Type 1 printer resident fonts in
most PostScript printers and/or the Type 1 fonts that one would
install on these systems play real havoc with line spacing,
layout, etc. Our advice is that if you want to use these families,
you either (1) delete these TrueType fonts from your MacOS system
and install the Type 1 fonts of these families (on MacOS 9.x and
earlier, you need at least ATM Lite) or (2) use the TrueType fonts,
but don't install any of the Type 1 fonts of these families AND
use the printer driver options to download ALL fonts. If you have
a PDF workflow, only the first of these options is really viable.

        - Dov


At 7/11/2002 11:02 PM, Jan Henning wrote:
>>(1) A major negative feature of current operating systems is the
>>"feature" by which the OS treats any "printer resident fonts" as if
>>they were also available on the host computer.
>
>To the best of my knowledge, this is not the case on Mac OS (any version,
>including X).
>
>Regards
>Jan Henning


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